Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Re: Multi-language support broken with patch 1165

Yongwei Wu wrote:

> After 1165, if I do something like set LANG=ja_JP, and then launch gVim,
> the screen is totally corrupt.
>
> After analysing the patch, I find it is now picking up libintl-8.dll from
> my Lua installation. It does not pick up the version that I tested to work
> with Vim and put specifically inside the Vim directory. Also be reminded
> the DLL shipped with Vim is called libintl.dll. So the change is not
> intuitive to users at all.
>
> It seems to me "try the newer version first" is not a good idea, and I
> would suggest reverting this patch.

That's disappointing. Is it that the libintl-8.dll that comes with Lua
is different than the one that Vim supports, or is that dll the same but
does it not work?

I thought this libintl-8.dll was used by the iconv dll, but perhaps it's
used in a different way?

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